598 stories by "Sharon Hoyer"
RECOMMENDED In "Homeland""the new dance theater piece by collaborators Michael Estanich and Lucy Riner"dancer Daiva Bhandari goes on a Proustian revel; she is a woman at play in the fields o…
Photo: Todd Rosenberg RECOMMENDED The name Mats Ek might ring a bell with many dance aficionados in our fair city, but the likelihood they have seen his work is relatively slim; dances by th…
RECOMMENDED It's been said that artists are people who haven't forgotten how to play. Take for example choreographer Trey McIntyre and the dancers in his Project; at the base of flawless cla…
RECOMMENDED This year's Global Rhythms program"an annual feast of international percussive performance groups presented by the Chicago Human Rhythm Project"is all about the rhythm, adrenalin…
RECOMMENDED River North's fall concert highlights new works by first-time collaborators with the company, including Adam Barruch and rising star Nejla Yatkin. Ms. Yatkin has created a solo p…
Multimedia artist and provocateur Martin Creed presents a mash-up of ballet fundamentals, video and ironic rock ‘n’ roll musical in this performance at the Edlis Neeson Theater"p…
RECOMMENDED Butoh artist Nicole LeGette explores the mercurial nature of the self in this solo performance that uses simplicity, intimacy and visceral potency as tools of the craft. LeGette'…
RECOMMENDED The entire body, internally and externally, is a percussive orchestra in Billy Siegenfeld's theatrical Jump Rhythm technique: a stomping, tapping, hollering, singing, slapping, g…
RECOMMENDED The Royal Winnipeg Ballet brings a tale of star-crossed lovers during La Belle Epoque to Chicago, ringing in the holiday stage season with grand theatricality and rafters-high ki…
RECOMMENDED Gus Giordano's jazz-based company celebrates the big five-oh with two nights of full-company pieces and a high-octane premiere by artistic associate Autumn Eckman. Eckman's new w…
RECOMMENDED The intelligent, issue-based dance theater delivered by Carrie Hanson and her company The Seldoms this time tackles climate change"more specifically the complex relationship we h…
By Sharon Hoyer I met Alejandro Cerrudo for dinner on a Monday evening after a particularly challenging day in the studio. He is tall, boyishly slim with a warm, likeable manner, just the ri…
In 1932, German choreographer Kurt Jooss crafted a scathing invective of war in the language of ballet. "The Green Table" opens and closes on those distinguished men in suits who decide the …
RECOMMENDED The fall program for Luna Negra, one of this city's finest (and, in my opinion, most under-seen) companies, turns a lens on Portuguese choreographer Fernando Melo. Luna Negra del…
RECOMMENDED The coalition of experimental artists lead by dancer Ayako Kato presents two weekends of performances that explore the creative possibility of the moment. "Octet" brings together…
RECOMMENDED Vibrant, luscious costumes and foot-stomping rhythms explode onto the Auditorium Theatre stage with the return of Amalia Hernandez's joyful, energetic company. Ballet Folklorico …
RECOMMENDED The creative bounty of autumn is celebrated at the third annual Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival: a cornucopia of companies and solo artists both up-and-coming (like r…
In “(glowing),” Japanese American choreographer Kota Yamazaki finds harmony in contrast, uniting movements from very different traditions in one choreography of subtlety and cele…
RECOMMENDED A new local company makes their debut this weekend at the Ruth Page Center. Chicago Repertory Ballet is the brainchild of Wade Schaaf, a hometown boy and former company member of…
RECOMMENDED Things that occurred: a group of girls chatting on the street abruptly realized there was a dancer just two feet behind them softly ruffling her nest of paper behind a showcas…
By Sharon Hoyer Chicago has, over the last decade, become an epicenter of world-class dance, both as creative incubator for new and established companies and"thanks to a half dozen high-prof…
Kate Corby plumbed the darkest chapters of human history for her evening-length dance "In Whole or in Part," which takes its title from the UN definition of genocide: "a series of acts commi…
RECOMMENDED Truth to power comes in many forms. For John Jota Leaños, one subversive medium is children's animation, where alphabet songs and Western fairy tales become vehicles of satire…
